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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"Hmmm. Warmest temperature is -6° C, it is rather difficult to get rain under that sort of temperature."
Shove that in front of Mrs. Kerry as she sips a brandy. Maybe she could show it to her hubby. Nah.
4 posted on 01/13/2011 7:24:02 PM PST by Marine_Uncle (Honor must be earned....Duncan Hunter Sr. for POTUS.)
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To: Marine_Uncle
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Speed says:

January 13, 2011 at 3:13 pm

It’s worse than the report. From the Knight Science Journalism Tracker and Seth Borenstein …

However…ahem. The paper and Nature’s summary for reporters both say that flipper-banded penguins had a 16 percent lower ten-year survival rate. By contrast, the accompanying data results table says that chances of surviving for ten years fell from 0.36 to 0.20. Well, subtract those two and one does get 0.16 or 16 points difference, but as our alert AP man saw, what’s important is not that the rate fell 16 points but that 0.20 is about a 44 percent drop from 0.36
http://ksjtracker.mit.edu/2011/01/13/lots-of-inumerate-ink-penguins-suffer-when-tagged-do-the-math-most-journos-didnt/


6 posted on 01/13/2011 7:27:43 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach ( Support Geert Wilders)
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